gypsy tail windNun ja, 16 Jahre lang war er wohl nicht sugar-free…
Sehr schöne Beschreibung!
zu seinem ton habe ich gerade noch was schönes von gary giddins gefunden:
„Above all, we loved his sound, which set his detractors’ teeth on edge: dark and rich, round and hard, caustic but celebratory, and, oh yes, slightly sharp or maybe flat. It was—it is—the sound of a man with a mission, a storyteller who could stop time and sear the soul. Or, as he put it, “It’s just my sound.” The sound was part of a style that included raspy asides and a motif-based approach to improvisation. A typical McLean solo will find him playing a fragment, and then repeating it even though the chords have changed, heightening the tension. Too melodic and intricate to qualify as mere riffs, these phrases keep the listener pleasurably suspended in the moment before McLean resolves them.“
(von hier).
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